Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays in Medical Ethics: Plea for a Medicine of Prudence; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1. Meeting in the Petri Dish?; Reproductive Medicine between Exigency and Engineered Normality; The Child as a Product: The Logic of Engineering; The Logic of Depersonalization; Social Egg Freezing: Family Planning on Ice; Alternatives to Engineered Reproduction; Chapter 2. Screen, Test, Weed Out?; The Double-Edged Sword of Prenatal Diagnostics; Is the Handicapped Child an Avoidable Risk?; The Gray Area between Demand and Taboo: Abortion.

Chapter 3. Prettier, Better, Stronger?Why Do We Want to Optimize Everything?; Endangering the Good Life; Conditions for a Good Life; Chapter 4. Is Health a Duty?; Personal Responsibility Is the New Paradigm; Is Sickness Guilt?; Health Literacy Is More Attitude than Knowledge; Chapter 5. The Crisis of Confidence in Organ Donation; Conditions for Confidence; Is Brain Death the Death of the Person?; An Approach to Humane Transplant Medicine; Chapter 6. On the Value of Age, Beyond the Fitness Imperative; "So That the Arc of Life May Be Complete"; Age Is a Clear View of Reality.

The Relation of Dependency Chapter 7. Living Wills -- Are Forms Replacing Dialogue?; The Living Will; Autonomy and Care; Forms Cannot Substitute Relationships; Chapter 8. Being Able to Let Go. For a New Culture of Dying; "Self-Determined Death"-Active Euthanasia Is Ethical Resignation; The Rationalization of Death and the Question of "Meaning"; What Could Good Dying Look Like?; Epilogue: Happiness Lies in Our Attitude Toward the World; Medicine of Prudence; Where Is the Yardstick?; Medicine and the Question of the Good Life; The Chance of Inner Healing Power; Notes; Index.

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